Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] TrackBack and blogs

[Asynch M. <asy...@ho...>]

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From: "Scott Andrew LePera" <sc...@sc...>

> Maybe because real-time notifications in blogland have dubious value, at
> least right now? ;)
Notifications are notifications, and isn't less useful because they are
really fast.

>
> I actually put up a mod_pubsub app that accepts the weblogs.com ping
> from weblog software that supports it:
>
> http://mod-pubsub.thrillerguide.com/blogtalk/
>
> Send a weblogs.com ping to:
> http://mod-pubsub.thrillerguide.com/blogtalk/blogtalk.php
>
> ...and your blog name will appear in the textarea. Extremely boring.
> Much like a real-time weblogs.com listing. The problem is, the ping
> doesn't send much interesting info.

Did you know that mod_pubsub will do off-site posting via HTTP POST?
This means that mod_pubsub will relay the notification (aka 'ping') to
multiple blogs, not just live in-browser clients.
So, what you have with mod_pubsub is more than live "in-browser" clients,
you have url-to-url routing.

>
> Now, TrackBack/PingBack is /much/ more interesting. However, TrackBacks
> are usually associated with a specific post, or at most, a Movable Type
> category group. To my knowledge, most weblog software doesn't send a
> TrackBack ping when a blog is updated "in general."
What is wrong with per-entry pub/sub? There should be other means to
subscribe to the blog itself.
Think of the blog as a 'collection of entries' and subscribe to that
collection. Whenever something is added (a POST), you get notified.

>
> Personally, I'd like to see the TrackBack ping supplant the weblogs.com
> ping, because 1) it has more information, and 2) doesn't require XML-RPC.
Me too. It'll happen over time. RPC helps some quickly bang out demos, but I
like REST for the long term.